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[-] pokexpert30@jlai.lu 32 points 1 day ago

And this is what happens when a middle manager answer "It won't" when you ask "what if the service goes down?"

[-] chocrates@piefed.world 4 points 21 hours ago

99.999999999 uptime guarantees yearly downtime.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

fail-safe motherfucker do you speak it

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

It's kind of amazing to think about how none of these products are designed to have a fallback functionality during an outage.

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago

Iirc Amazon has a special tooling for creating iot devices. It's supposed to make creating the communication easier so you don't have a bunch badly implemented communication systems. Ofc it uses Amazon's cloud.

I would not be surprised if they all failed this way due to using the tool. As in the Dev's code might not even get to know there was an outage, and the tool just keeps telling it the last state it got.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, it's almost certain everybody would just end up using the same library.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It’s gotta be more than just an outage that did this. Like seriously, your internet goes out and your bed breaks? Why didn’t we hear anything about this before? Certainly these people have had home internet go out?!

I’m just imagining it’s a bug of sorts where the bed can access some things but not some other resource specifically not needs so it got caught in an unexpected condition.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

npr did a short segment a few years ago of people with smart homes that had problems like this, water stopped running; lights wouldn't turn on; people forgot passwords to security systems and entry ways.

some things shouldn't be connected like this.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

It could be that it did happen before, but it was just individual cases and if the outage wasn't long then probably wasn't noteworthy. This time it was a whole bunch of people affected all at once for a prolonged period. And you're likely right that there's probably a series of states the device can be in, and it does calls to AWS as it moves through them, so probably got stuck at a particular stage and couldn't move forward cause it couldn't talk to the mothership.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, that's so ridiculous. They could've just turned off the heating and made it lay flat, and it would've been fine. But evidently, they did not even think about handling an outage.

[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

Just buy dumb beds and heat them with your own body.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

I'm so glad we have smart cars.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

So by tying the bed to Amazon's cloud exclusively, reduces its uptime from 100% to 99.5% or lower...

[-] chocrates@piefed.world 2 points 21 hours ago

11 9's baby!

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 day ago

!aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

[-] Mihies@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Not so smart afterall, eh?

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